EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Subject: Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987
Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(United Kingdom) Regulations
Section 44 of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act. Paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Act provides that regulations may apply the Act to a specified foreign country to give effect to a bilateral mutual assistance treaty.
A Treaty Between the Government of Australia and the Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Concerning the Investigation of Drug Trafficking and Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking was signed on 8 August 1988. A copy of the Treaty is set out in the Schedule to the regulations.
Details of the regulations are as follows:
Clause 1 is a citation provision.
Clause 2 provides for the regulations to commence on 12 September 1990.
Clause 3 is an interpretation provision.
Clause 4 applies the Act to the United Kingdom subject to the Treaty which is reproduced as a Schedule to the Regulations.